Games crash & bsod

FXL5

FXL5

FXL5

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Got this PC a couple of days after SB release:

i5-2500K
ASUS P8P67pro
MSI GTX460
OCZ 700W PSU
4GB RAM (I think Kingston)
500GB WD storage drive

It was/is the original 'Titan Spinosaur' build.

In the last few weeks, it has started to crash games. Nothing else, perfectly stable for days doing most things (including rendering, I thought it might be a GPU issue). Sometimes, they just blink and go to desktop, no warning, no error message.

Other times, they completely crash - BSOD, reboot, then act like it never happened. This can be at the loading screen, ten minutes in, or after two hours.

There are no warning signs, the screen doesn't freeze, the audio doesn't jump. Just a straight crash.

I haven't added or changed any hardware since I bought it. I hadn't updated the drivers, so I've now done that for anything I could find a driver for. Problem not solved.

Any ideas, chaps? Has something died and needs replacing, or is this more insidious than that?
 
Nobody? Just realised this might be in the wrong forum, can I move it to software problems?
 
It was overclocked, I've put the BIOS back to normal, no change. Not even a slowdown, so I evidently wasn't using the overclock much anyway.

I've been looking at other problems/forums/books, and all I can conclude is that it's the motherboard, RAM or GPU. That's not really informative, though I'm pretty sure it's not the GPU (see statement about rendering) unless PhysX or DX11 are known for crashing things.
 
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